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eightzero said:

JamesCude said:

Wow that entire article could have been condensed to a shrugging emoji.

Pretty sure AI can do that for you. 

I'm pretty sure AI wrote this whole article. Seriously. Note that there's no byline for a human author. (Note: altthough a byline did appear after I posted, I remain convinced this was AI authored) Note the stupidity of a clickbait headline that WILDLY overpromises what the article will tell you and never pays off at all. Not one specific thing about how Apple's ring is going to "blow the other manufacturers out of the water," just a regurgitation of known rumors and speculation and broad generalizations--not all of them true, either--about how Apple brings a product to market. You can practically smell the AI stench coming through your screen. 

eriamjh said:

I have Carplay in the 2017 Chevy Bolt EV.   Now, the Bolt doesn't have any mapping abilities or charge and route planning.

Neither does Car Play.   

All it has is Maps, for navigation, which I use... sometimes.   If I play music, it's either iTunes or Youtube Music.  And those don't really require anything on the screen.   

Apple wants OEMs to adapt Carplay as an easy way to slap an interface on their cars instead of developing expensive interfaces in-house.   Instead, the OEMs mostly do a half-ass job and no one notices how bad they are because most don't care.

Car Play came out of the dead Apple EV.   And it probably won't get very far either.

CarPlay has been in cars for a decade, very successfully, too, and it's not going anywhere anytime soon. CarPlay did not come out of Project Titan, it was a means of spreading the iPhone ecosystem into the automobile, thus bolstering iPhone sales, which are the lifeblood of Apple, by making the iPhone an even more indispensable device on a day-to-day basis. 

Some carmakers, GM most notably, have recently abandoned (or never supported) both CarPlay and Android Auto in favor of their own systems, but we'll see how that goes. They are looking to do two things: get you to subscribe to their convenience features and collect your data to sell to the highest bidder. GM has already been caught collecting data on how individual drivers operate their cars--speeds, stopping distances, g forces when turning, etc, then selling that data to insurance companies, which then surprise those drivers with MUCH higher insurance premiums. Yeah, it's a lovely system! Personally, if a car doesn't have CarPlay, I won't even consider it for purchase. That's a total dealbreaker. 

When you say CarPlay doesn't have mapping abilities, what do you mean? Apple Maps, Google Maps and Waze all run in CarPlay, with real-time traffic info from users determining the routing that you're given. In areas without traffic problems, it will simply route you via the most direct route, with some user ability to control the route via settings. You must be using an ancient version of iOS because Apple killed iTunes back in 2019. 

Just noticing that the product featured most prominently in the photo by far in this bust of "Apple counterfeit products" is, in fact, a no-name wired earphone that is clearly not an Apple product. How is it even "counterfeit" without a brand name? They might be stolen goods, but I'm surprised thieves even take the risk for a product of such low value. 

All this counterfeit Apple stuff sure helps explain the flood of "new in box" Apple Airpod Pro 2 buds now selling for $40-ish and even less from a bunch of different sellers on ebay--and each seller seems to have dozens of them available. 

Thanks, AI, I found this pretty fascinating, and the greater detail leaves me feeling that Project Bongo was a solution in search of a problem. The buttons still moved but were now tethered to much more complex electronics and we want this vs the mechanical buttons we have because why? "Button failure" is hardly an issue on iPhones but, in theory, I figured non-movable buttons with haptic/audio feedback might allow the iPhone to be more waterproof. However, since the buttons moved anyway, that would seem to make them no better than what we have now. It's funny how "advances" are sometimes not. With the old ringer silence switch, I could tell at a glance if I had my phone on silent or not. But with the new Action Button, I have to press the button to see whether the phone is on ringer or silent. (Perhaps it's visible in always-on display mode, but I don't use that.)